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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ADDISON JONES, OF: OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

SEAL-HOLDING ATTACHMENT FOR HASP-LOCKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,641, dated November20, 1883.

Application filed January 15, 1883.

T at; whom it; may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADDISON J ONES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nobraska, haveinvented a new and useful device to be applied to freight-car locks forprotecting the same, as well as the tag and check thereof; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of the same, in which 7 Figure l is aperspective view of the cap or device attached to a freight-car-lock.Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of the lock-cap. Fig. 4 is a front view of one form of a car-lockto which my deviceis to be applied. Fig. 5 represents the same withmy'device applied thereto. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the device. Fig. 7is an end view of the same. Fig. 8 represents the lock-cap turnedvertically upon its hinge. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the barbedlock-bolt. Fig. 10 is aplan view of the glass plate used with my device.

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My invention relates to improvements in seal-locks, in which a smallplate of glass is used to seal and protect the key-hole and tag placedagainst it; and the object of my improvements is to provide a cap orshield adapted to be attached by peculiar means to ordinary car-locks ofthat class known as hasplocks, and completely cover the front and sidesof said lock 5 and also to provide said cap with a tag and glass sealsecured thereto in a peculiar manner, as hereinafter described, andspecifically pointed out in the claims. I attain these objects by theconstruction illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

in which I j A represents the frame of an ordinary carlock. It isprovided with openings CL and a at the ends to receive bolts, whereby itis secured to a car-door or to the jamb thereof At one end of thelock-frame a chamber A,

is formed to receive the tumblers a", and the spring-jaws a used toengage with the barbs b b of the bolt 13, the latter passing throughModel) and being guided into the look by staples A projecting from theframe A. Within the front wall, A of the lock-chamber is formed thekey-hole a.

To protect the keyhole and lock from being tampered with, I place overthe front and around the side walls of the lock-chamber a cap, 0, ofbrass or any other suitable metal, in the form of a rectangular box,having a top, a, two pendent sides, 0, and a pendent end, 0 Thelatter isprovided with a slot, 0, to receive,

- in the usual manner, one end of the bolt B,

and be locked thereby. This cap is pivoted at c to lugs or flanges cprojecting from the end piece, 0. This end piece projects at c slightlybeyond the top 0 of the cap, to prevent rain entering the cap at thatpoint, and also prevent straining the pivots 0 when the cap is opened.The lower end of the end 0 is provided with a flange, 0 substantially atright angles to the end 0, and having a hole, 0, to receive either arivet, cl, to unite it to the lock-frame, or a bolt to secure it, aswell as the lock-frame, to a car-door, said bolt having either a' nut orriveted head upon the inside of said door or of the door-jamb. Anopening, (1 is made in the top 0 of the cap, and a frame, (1", issoldered to or formed with the top a, so as to project over the edge ofthe opening d and retain a rectangular piece of glass, (1*, made to fitthe opening d. This glass is inserted from the under side, beingretained connected with the top plate, 0, before the cap is closed, by aprojecting shelf, (1 soldered to the under side of the plate 0. On theunder side of the glass is pasted a paper, d, on which is written whatmay be necessary to properly check or tag the car. By means of the capnot only the tag and key-hole, but the whole lock-case is protected fromrain, snow, and dust. The lower end 0 of the cap, and consequently thewhole cap, is locked in position by the bolt B, passing through the slot0", and in said position the car is effectually checked, tagged, andsealed, and the car cannot be unlocked without destroying the lock orbreaking the glass and tag.

To prevent the bolt from being removed from the look by pounding it out,as is frequently done, and thus rendering the seal ineffectual, I havemade the barbed point 6 of the bolt of cast-steel, thus adding to itsstrength, and formed shoulders 1) upon that end of the bolt to abutagainst the-lock-case. The lower or outer end of the bolt is madecrooked or bent out of line and made light and thin or weakened at b asheretofore, so that a heavy blow would break it off at that point.

I am aware that seal-locks have been provided with a cover hingedpermanently to the frame thereof, and that said cover overlaps a portionof the sides of said frame, while my invention relates to an independentshield adapted to be attached to any ordinary hasplock.

Having now fully I claim,

1. The combination of a car-lock frame with the cap-plate 0, having sideplates, 0, covering the entire sides of the projecting portion describedmy invention,

of said lock frame, and end piece, 0, having the perforated flange 0substantially at right angle to said end piece, and side lugs, 0substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of a car-lock frame with end piece, 0 having theperforated flange c" lock-frame, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

Witness my hand this llth day of December, A. D. 1882, at Omaha,Nebraska.

ADDISON J ONES..

In presence of J. S. SHRoPsHIRE, O. V. GALLAGHER.

